Aerial inspection

[treeseer]

""Touching trees" (getting 'up' close & personal) is the only way to 'learn' what's going on upstairs. "

 

True, but i was also being more literal than that, per the detective's hands-on work below:

 

I felt the slightly shriveled and

sunken bark above the question mark and

tapped and pried off loose, dead bark.

The woundwood felt thick and hard under

my fingertips, the richest source of tactile

feedback on the body. Mechanoreceptors,

packed under the ridges that form my fingertips,

felt many years’ worth of growth in

the texture of the lignified callus.

[Ian C]

very interesting thanks David.

[David Humphries]

very interesting thanks David.

 

You're welcome Ian.

 

How often do/did you get a chance to 'just' assess a tree for a client?

 

 

 

 

 

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[JonnyVine]

Clearly you have been privilaged with oportunity to make most operators look lazy.

 

Very nice work David

 

Jealous

Jonny

[David Humphries]

Clearly you have been privilaged with oportunity to make most operators look lazy.

 

Very nice work David

 

Jealous

Jonny

 

Privilaged?

 

Not sure if that's quite what it is.

I could just choose to steer our management to just cutting em down and making the place sanitised and über safe.

Would make my bosses sleep easier at night.

 

That's what we 'used' to do 15/20 years ago.

 

I/we've spent a lot of cpd time at conferences (during and outside of work in our own time) not to mention budget in pushing our knowledge and experience along.

 

It makes the job far more 'interesting' for sure.

 

 

 

 

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[JonnyVine]

I much prefer the cut and thrust of properly (sensibly) evaluating a tree for retention.

 

As you say it makes it more interesting, especialy when initial investigation via binoculars points to an aerial defect and actualy seeing what is going on when you get up there

[Andy Clark]

Hi all,

 

 

 

Just on the subject of 'aerial tree inspections', the AA Arborist Working Group ('AWG') are currently working on a guidance note to assist undertaking these where there is no clear instruction as to what the client/owner/consultant wants checking, i.e. a general instruction to undertake a climbing inspection of a tree.

 

 

 

I'll let you know when it's published / available.

 

 

 

Cheers all..

 

Paul

 

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Fantastic news Paul.

 

With there currently being no realistic qualification that covers aerial inspection to any great extent, I've just been out and bought my own new climbing kit in order to undertake them myself, as I can't cover the liability by using our contractors.

 

They will be accompanying me on the climbs in order to cover lone working and aerial rescue aspects of the climb etc, but the inspection/decision making/analysis etc will be carried out by me.

 

 

Cracking vid Mr H!

 

Picked up a flexible shaft drain camera earlier this year, for doing internal inspections of cavities. Great bit of kit that'll let me take photo and vids for inclusion into reports and/or survey records.

 

I know that bit itself doesn't exactly relate to aerial inspections, but I did get it with a 10m extension - which I can send up to a clmber to poke into a hole, why I stand below directing and recording.

 

 

 

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[treeseer]

Sounds like the Borescope covered here. Never did get it--thanks for the reminder--Christnas is coming!

decay_ArbNews_2009_02.pdf

[Stephen Blair]

good video, very professional company.

tree work with out the saws is so much more pleasant:biggrin:

[JonnyVine]

good video, very professional company.

tree work with out the saws is so much more pleasant:biggrin:

 

Agreed